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Effect of Cooling Airflow Intake Positioning on the Aerodynamics of a Simplified Battery Electric Road Vehicle
No full textThe transition towards battery electric vehicles (BEVs) has increased the focus of vehicle manufacturers on energy efficiency. Ensuring adequate airflow through the heat exchanger is necessary to climatize the vehicle, at the cost of an increase in the aerodynamic drag. With lower cooling airflow requirements in BEVs during driving, the front air intakes could be made smaller and thus be placed with greater freedom. This paper explores the effects on exterior aerodynamics caused by securing a constant cooling airflow through intakes at various positions across the front of the vehicle. High-fidelity simulations were performed on a variation of the open-source AeroSUV model that is more representative of a BEV configuration. To focus on the exterior aerodynamic changes, and under the assumption that the cooling requirements would remain the same for a given driving condition, a constant mass flow boundary condition was defined at the cooling airflow inlets and outlets. A parametric study was conducted by spatially moving the cooling intakes, with constant total area, across the front of the vehicle. Power consumption of the fan had to be considered when maintaining the desired airflow rate through intakes without sufficient ram air. As expected, moving intakes away from the stagnation region increased drag. Lateral outward movements altered the flow fields around the front wheels, while vertical movements of the intake only showed marginal flow changes across the top and bottom halves of the vehicle. The flow characteristics towards the rear were unaffected, and the changes observed were mostly local. Including power requirements of the fan, increments up to 15% of total vehicle drag were observed
Recirculating flow structures of a square-back Ahmed body at a variable attitude
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The recirculating flow at the rear of a flat-base three-dimensional body with ground proximity is investigated for different body attitudes defined by the pitch angle varying in the range
and the yaw angle in the range
. Experiments measuring the three components of the mean velocity field in two perpendicular planes intersecting the recirculation area as well as the base pressure distribution are conducted for 50 different attitudes. They provide a clear correlation between the orientation of the spatially averaged reversed flow and the gradient at the centre of the base pressure distribution. Both vectors are found to be in the same so-called
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plane, that is perpendicular to the base of which the azimuthal position changes with the body attitude due to either the flow orientation at the base separation or sometimes to a ground separation for large nose-up pitch. Numerical simulations of the same geometry realised for 10 attitudes show satisfactory agreement with the force coefficients measured in the experiment. Base flow variations induced by attitude changes are also well captured, particularly that of the
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plane. The full three-dimensional simulation data are used to show that the inner structure of the separation bubble is always a tilted recirculation torus, where the tilt orientation is given by the base pressure gradient. At the bubble closure, a pair of longitudinal vortices symmetrically located on both sides of the
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plane are permanently observed with circulations consistent with the circulation of the dividing streamline separation in the
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Rozpor ako východisko, láska ako smer u Simone Weilovej (Contradiction as base, Love as direction in writings of Simone Weil)
No full textArticle is explaining contradiction and love, Simone Weil‘s essential terms of hermeneutics of human Being. It introduces close relation of these terms with her understanding of God as well as with her overall concept of religion. Author also mentions Simone Weil‘s inspirations with philosophical and spiritual concepts of the East
sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672221086380 – Supplemental material for Support for Social Change Among Members of Advantaged Groups: The Role of a Dual Identity Representation and Accepting Intergroup Contact
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672221086380 for Support for Social Change Among Members of Advantaged Groups: The Role of a Dual Identity Representation and Accepting Intergroup Contact by Lisa Katharina Frisch, Simone Sebben, Luisa Liekefett, Nurit Shnabel, Emilio Paolo Visintin, Johannes Ullrich and Tabea Hässler in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
“I beg you to tell me what has become of Djamila”: The Political Mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s Readers During the Boupacha Affair
No full textBy Sophia Millman This is a condensed version of a Masters thesis dedicated to the political mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s readers. The citations from the letters were translated from French by the author. *** On June 2, 1960, the French government ordered all copies of the daily Algiers edition of Le Monde seized and destroyed to suppress the publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s article “Pour Djamila Boupacha.” Beauvoir, a self-professed “woman of letters”, not “of action[1]”, and one ..
2022 Swiss-German Adult Survey: Exploring Social Movements, Attitudes, Wealth Distribution, Gender Dynamics, Environmental Concerns, Language, Stereotypes, and Body Image
No full textThis project is a joint effort between different member of the social psychology lab at the university of Zurich. Three separate questionnaires have been prepared in 2020, 2021, 2022 as part of this project. Note that most modules/set of questions as well as participation differ based on the year of data collection. This documentation is for the year 2022. In 2022, we recruited a quota-sample of approximately 1'000 participants from the panel provider Bilendi. The sample is quasi-representative for the German speaking parts of Switzerland in their distributions of age, gender, and state of residence. Each lab member proposed a module of questions with –in some cases– an experimental design. The modules of questions include the following topics: 1. Identification with different social movements/issues (e.g., LGBTIQ+, women’s rights, pro-environmental). 2. Ambivalence, self-control, and fatigue. 3. Attitudes toward environmental protection. 4. Wealth distribution between different groups (i.e., men and women; poor and rich people). 5. Opinion toward gendered language. 6. Accuracy of stereotypes. 7. Gender inequalities (i.e., focusing on price differences for hairdressers depending on gender). 8. Self-objectification and body image. It also includes key demographic variables (e.g., nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, children, canton of residence, income, level of education, political orientation). Several sections contain an experimental design (see codebook). The material is available in German and (partially) in English. Robert Tobias, Simone Sebben, and Léïla Eisner deserve credit for doing the major share of work involved in programming of the survey, troubleshooting, and monitoring of the quotas. Léïla Eisner prepared the data for publication
A comparative study of form and theology in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil
Get PDFIn this comparative study of the form and theology of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil I interrogate how Weil's philosophical writings and her theology illuminate O'Connor's use of both narrative and non-fictional forms, and her Catholicism. The Introduction analyses how Weil's concept of superposed reading provides a new method of approaching both O'Connor, her writings, and O'Connor
studies, and focuses on how such apparently different women interconnect. Chapter One explores how both Weil and O'Connor attempt to write their theologies on the
souls of their readers yet are each subject to constraints imposed by form. Weil's concept of locating equilibrium between incommensurates is discussed, and her
distinctively philosophical approach to fictions and fictionality is used to investigate O'Connor's notion of prophetic fictions and the writer's role. Chapter Two assesses how both writers revivify Christian paradoxes. Weil's monstrous concept of affiiction, and O'Connor's use of the grotesque genre to jolt secular man into an
awareness of the sacred are scrutinised. Chapter Three studies how both writers consider an encounter between God and man is possible through the action of grace. My Conclusion interrogates how Weil's work can deepen our understanding of O'Connor's writings, and examines how successful O'Connor is at realising a truly
Christian literature. I conclude that despite being a writer of powerful fictions, O'Connor can not be totally successful in her mission as writer-prophet because
ultimately fiction escapes orthodoxy
Microlinices benthovus Simone 2014
No full textbenthovus, Microlinices Simone, 2014 Microlinices benthovus Simone, 2014: 575–578 (figs 6A–J, 7A–H, 11A–C). Gastropoda, Naticidae Paratypes (22 spc): MZSP 105269. Paratypes 1 (15 spc): MZSP 105270. Paratypes 2 (16 spc): MZSP 105271. Paratypes 3 (7 spc): MZSP 105272. Localities: Brazil, Espírito Santo, off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 18°59' S, 37°50' W, MD55 sta. DC 73, 637 m depth, 27 May 1987; 1) 19°00' S, 37°48' W, MD55 sta. DC72, 950– 1050 m, 27 May 1987; 2) off Regência, 19°40' S, 37°48' W, MD55 sta. CB77, 790– 940 m depth, 27 May 1987; 3) off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 19°01' S, 37°47' W, MD55 sta. CB79, 1500–1575 m depth, 28 May 1987. Collectors: P. Bouchet, J.H. Leal and B. Métivier. Preservation: Dry. Remarks: Former MNHN, Paris. The catalogue number MZSP 105250 is mentioned twice in Simone’s (2014) paper, among the paratypes of M. ibitingus Simone, 2014 and M. benthovus. This duplicity was a mistake by the author: the latter is an erroneous designation and should be disregarded. The only valid paratype lots for M. benthovus are the ones shown above.Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/384012
Was bringt die Föderalismusreform? Wahrscheinliche Effekte der geänderten Zustimmungspflicht
Get PDFThe recently enacted reform of German federalism is supposed to make legislation faster, more efficient and better. To what extent are these expectations justified? In order to assess the likely effects of the reform, this study uses a research design that was recently applied by the Research and Reference Services of the German Bundestag (parliament): we estimate the future effects of the reform by analyzing the impact it would have had on the legislation in the 14th and 15th term of the Bundestag if it had already been been in force at that time. In particular we ask: To what extent would the number of laws requiring the consent of the states' chamber, the Bundesrat, have been reduced? Which type of laws would have been affected by this reduction - the more controversial ones, or the less controversial ones? Which policy sectors would have seen the greatest reduction? How much would the reduction have increased the government's capacity to act effectively? Would the legislative process have been accelerated? -- Die verabschiedete Föderalismusreform soll die Gesetzgebung in Deutschland schneller, effizienter und besser machen. Inwiefern sind diese Erwartungen berechtigt? Zur Abschätzung der Reformfolgen auf die Bundesgesetzgebung folgen wir in dem vorliegenden Working Paper einer Vorgehensweise, die der Wissenschaftliche Dienst des Bundestages kürzlich in einer Studie angewandt hat: Die Auswirkungen der Föderalismusreform insbesondere auf die Zustimmungspflicht werden anhand der Gesetzgebung der 14. und 15. Legislaturperiode untersucht. Wir fragen insbesondere: Wie stark hätte sich der Anteil der Zustimmungsgesetze verringert, wenn die neuen Zustimmungsregeln schon in diesen beiden Legislaturperioden gegolten hätten? Wären eher zwischen Regierung strittige oder unstrittige Gesetze von der Zustimmungspflicht befreit worden? Welche Politikbereiche wären betroffen? Wie sehr hätte sich die politische Handlungsfreiheit der Bundesregierung erhöht? Wäre die Gesetzgebung durch die veränderten Zustimmungsregeln beschleunigt worden?
2021 Swiss-German Adult Survey: Exploring Decision-Making, Social Norms, Hospitality, Gender Dynamics, Education, Wealth Distribution, and Social Attitudes
No full textThis project is a joint effort between different member of the social psychology lab at the university of Zurich. Three separate questionnaires have been prepared in 2020, 2021, 2022 as part of this project. Note that most modules/set of questions as well as participation differ based on the year of data collection. This documentation is for the year 2021. In 2021, we recruited a quota-sample of approximately 1'000 participants from the panel provider Bilendi. The sample is quasi-representative for the German speaking parts of Switzerland in their distributions of age, gender, and state of residence. Each lab member proposed a module of questions with –in some cases– an experimental design. The modules of questions include the following topics: 1. Decision-making (e.g., consumer behaviors and hotel/vacation preferences). 2. Social norms and punishment (e.g., in the context of personal hygiene/Food truck). 3. Hospitality and attitudes toward immigrants from different countries. 4. Job interviews and gender-related questions (e.g., desire to have children). 5. Social inequalities in class settings (e.g., resources available to students). 6. Wealth distribution between different groups (i.e., men and women; poor and rich people). 7. Attitudes and perceived norms toward sexual minorities (e.g., opinions and planned votes toward marriage equality and adoption). It also includes key demographic variables (e.g., nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation, children, canton of residence, income, level of education). Several sections contain an experimental design (see codebook). The material is available in German and (partially) in English. Robert Tobias and Simone Sebben deserve credit for doing the major share of work involved in programming of the survey, troubleshooting, and monitoring of the quotas. Léïla Eisner prepared the data for publication
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